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title: Gossip about a famous person's love life is entertainment, not real… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gossip about a famous person's love life is entertainment, not real news, and much of it is guessing from photos. Who acts: Gossip, much. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 11

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Gossip about a famous person's love life is entertainment, not real news, and much of it is guessing from photos.

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**Who acts:** Gossip, much · **What happens:** be, guess · **To what, where:** entertainment, photos

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gossip, much), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:11
# text = Gossip about a famous person's love life is entertainment, not real news, and much of it is guessing from photos.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Gossip about a famous person's love life | entertainment and real news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guess** | present · progressive | much of gossip |  |  | photos |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:11`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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